{"id":11444,"date":"2022-10-14T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:34:09","slug":"as-women-as-mothers-and-as-palestinians-we-must-speak-our-truth-eetta-prince-gibson-haaretz-oct-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/as-women-as-mothers-and-as-palestinians-we-must-speak-our-truth-eetta-prince-gibson-haaretz-oct-13\/","title":{"rendered":"As Women, as Mothers and as Palestinians, We Must Speak Our Truth \/ Eetta Prince Gibson, Haaretz, Oct. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11444\" class=\"elementor elementor-11444\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f32441 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f32441\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e7376bc\" data-id=\"e7376bc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07f046d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"07f046d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 26-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Women of the Sun is a grassroots Palestinian movement striving to improve women\u2019s lives in the West Bank and Gaza, and has teamed up with a feminist Israeli group to try to breathe new life into the dormant peace process<\/strong>.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"rd sm kx sn so sp\">\u201cI have a daughter, 16, and two boys, 18 and 14. I want them to live a better life than I have. I\u2019m not thinking only of my daughter, but of the whole community,\u201d says Reem Hjajara as we sit down to drink tea in Beit Jala.<\/p><div class=\"\"><div class=\"FI_PH\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><p class=\"rd sm kx sn so sp\">Hjajara, 40, is founding director of Women of the Sun, a new\u00a0<a class=\"ry rz sa sb ix kr sc sd se sf sg sh rg fi jk jl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\">Palestinian<\/a>\u00a0feminist civil society and peace advocacy group.<\/p><div class=\"\"><div class=\"FI_PH\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><p class=\"rd sm kx sn so sp\">Co-director Layla Sheikh, 45, translates into English for Hjajara and Maram Zoual, 30. Even through the translation, it is clear that all three women are articulate yet speak carefully, sometimes seeming to consult with one another.<\/p><p>\u201cWe want to be honest and open,\u201d Sheikh explains, \u201cbut we also have to be careful because there are people in Palestinian society who do not approve of what we do \u2013 not of our feminist work and not of our partnership with\u00a0<a class=\"ry rz sa sb ix kr sc sd se sf sg sh rg fi jk jl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/2017-10-10\/ty-article\/.premium\/its-women-who-will-make-an-arab-jewish-peace-peace-scares-men\/0000017f-e596-df2c-a1ff-ffd71f810000\">Women Wage Peace<\/a>\u00a0[the Israeli feminist pro-peace organization set up in 2014]. But as women, as mothers and as Palestinians, we must speak our truth.\u201d<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2022-10-13\/ty-article\/.premium\/as-women-as-mothers-and-as-palestinians-we-must-speak-our-truth\/00000183-d03b-d4bc-af87-d63f492c0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Masa-bet-Jala1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Masa-bet-Jala1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Masa-bet-Jala1-263x350.jpeg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women of the Sun is a grassroots Palestinian movement striving to improve women\u2019s lives in the West Bank and Gaza, and has teamed up with a feminist Israeli group to try to breathe new life into the dormant peace process. \u201cI have a daughter, 16, and two boys, 18 and 14. 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